Rep. Tom McClintock Takes Mexican President Felipe Calderón To The Woodshed

Russia Blocks U.S. Missile Defense: Does Obama Get It?

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a speech Monday that Russia had nothing to worry about from NATO.   “While Russia faces challenges to its security, NATO is not among them,” she said, disagreeing with Russia’s new military doctrine that lists NATO’s eastward expansion as a threat to the country’s security.    This is an all too familiar scene, the Obama Administration is no better at convincing the Russians NATO is nice, than they are at convincing Americans that Universal Health Care won’t bite. Failed domestic policies are one thing, but can the U.S. really afford to fail at foreign relations and missile defense?

In an attempt to appease Russian fears over NATO, Clinton also said the U.S. wants “a cooperative NATO-Russia relationship that produces concrete results and draws NATO and Russia closer together.”

Russia has long opposed NATO expansion of former Soviet States.   Russia’s new military doctrine approved by President Dmitry Medvedev earlier in February also includes the possibility of using of nuclear weapons by Russia and lists U.S. anti-missile shield plans as a national threat. This change to Russian doctrine comes five months after Obama scrapped the European Missile Shield without a single Russian concession. In [Continue...]

President Lies before a Cheering Crowd

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Yesterday, while campaigning for troubled Senate majority leader  Harry Reid in Henderson NV, President Obama said he was designating $1.5 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to fund programs at local housing finance agencies in California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan.  “This fund’s going to help out-of-work homeowners avoid preventable foreclosures,” he told a cheering crowd.

I am always struck over the reaction of Obamamania.   Where do they find these people who will cheer for utter nonsense?    Doesn’t anyone listen to what this man is saying?

Look at what he said once again, “This fund’s going to help out-of-work homeowners avoid preventable foreclosures”.    Thats an impossible claim.   How can anyone be out-of-work and still keep their home — mortgage free?   Now if he said this fund would be used to help people find jobs so they could pay their mortgages to prevent foreclosure, that would be much closer to truthful reality.

He followed that statement with this, “It will help homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth find a way to pay their mortgages that works for both the borrowers and the lenders alike.”

Without jobs, Mr. President?    How are people without jobs [Continue...]

Iran Unveils New Satellite: Possible Weapon?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled a domestically-built satellite booster rocket Wednesday, part of an ambitious space programme that has worried Western powers because they fear the same technology used to launch satellites could also deliver warheads.  Officials say the light booster rocket, named Simorgh (phoenix), can carry a satellite weighing 220 pounds (100 kilogrammes) up to 310 miles (500 kilometres) above the Earth.

Meanwhile, the county’s state television broadcast images it said were of the launch of the Kavoshgar-3, or Explorer-3, rocket on Wednesday.  Iran’s defence minister said his country’s successful launch was for research purposes.  General Ahmad Vahidi did not elaborate on the rocket or its research purposes.   Over the past two years Iran has put two rockets into space carrying equipment that collected information on determining the path, pressure, wind and temperature and sent them back to earth.   The country sent its first domestically made telecommunications satellite into orbit last year.

Tehran has said it needs satellites to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation and improve its telecommunications.  On Tuesday Iran said it was ready to send its uranium abroad for further enrichment as requested by the U.N, a decision which could signal a major shift in the Iranian position on [Continue...]

No one but Stack is to blame for the attack in Austin.

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Joseph Andrew Stack flew a small plane today into an office building in Austin, Texas that housed an IRS office in it. I, as I am sure many Americans watched the events unfold on the news with hope that no one was killed or seriously injured. Initially the reports where 2 hospitalized one missing. Now it appears they have found 2 bodies in the wreckage.

As the investigators unraveled the puzzle certain things came to be seen. The alleged pilot set his house on fire and before he undertaking this act he left behind a six page diatribe on the internet attacking everything from organized religion to the IRS. From President Bush to President Obama. Complaining of the GM Bailout, politicians, and “the joke we call the American medical system”.

As I read his “manifesto” it dawned on me that this dude had some serious issues. Not just that but reading his rant in its entirety I could not place where he stood politically. Some of the rant sounded like a Conservative while others hit me as being quite Liberal. So as any reasonable person would have done I decided to let the investigators do there jobs and not try point the partisan [Continue...]

Leftist Math: Calculated To Make Us Feel Better About Leftist Policies

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Never mind that this week the Politico chose to focus on the top two earmark offenders in Congress as Republicans even though five of the next six on the list were Democrats.  Never mind that any adverse weather, hot or cold, wet or dry, typical or unusual, is attributed to man-made climate change without any regard to historical weather and climate patterns.  Never mind that the Left held fast to outlandish and completely unsustainable guestimates that the Iraq War killed up to a million and a half Iraqi civilians.  If something can’t be proven, the Left will make up worst-case-scenario numbers and statistics and hammer them home as the Gospel.

The same holds true for the Leftist approach to the economy.  It’s almost as if the Lancet study in Iraq was applied to job numbers.  During most of the Bush era, unemployment numbers were at or near historic lows.  This was because the Bush Administration’s approach to an economic downturn was to cut taxes and while spending was still a problem, it at least remained within reason when compared to the growth in the overall economy.  I was told repeatedly throughout those years that unemployment numbers were irrelevant when gauging the strength of the economy.

We're All Survivors Of 'Choice', Ms. O'Neill

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“This child’s future is a broken home. He will be abandoned by his father. His single mother will struggle to raise him. Despite the hardships he will endure…this child…will become…the 1st African-American President.” – Transcript from ad rejected by NBC for the 2009 SuperBowl

By now we all know about the surprisingly controversial ad by Focus on the Family that ran during the SuperBowl last weekend.  The ad featured Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam.  His mother described a difficult pregnancy and was then – brace yourself – tackled by her son who, it turns out, was born.  The mother jokingly asks Tim why he did that and he laughs and says, “Sorry mom.”

Various leaders of the National Organization of Wenches (NOW) expressed outrage at the Tebow tackle, claiming that in some bizarre, pink-stained world, this glorifies violence against women – a position that ironically trivializes real violence against women.  If we’re going to get stupid about this stuff then we could carry it further and point out that blurring the lines between a fake, comedic assault and the real kinds of violence that real people deal with does nothing to serve the cause against that violence.  Not [Continue...]